Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

1.

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

2.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

3.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

4.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

5.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

6.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

7.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

8.

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

9.

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

10.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

11.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

12.

Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

13.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

14.

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

15.

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

16.

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

17.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

18.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

19.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

20.

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

21.

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

22.

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

23.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

24.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

25.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

26.

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

27.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

28.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

29.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

30.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

31.

Make friends before you need them

32.

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

33.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

34.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

35.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

36.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

37.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

40.

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

42.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

43.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

44.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

45.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

46.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

47.

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

48.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

49.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

50.

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas